By: Averitt S.B. No. 105
(In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2002; January 29, 2003,
read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
March 10, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
Nays 1; March 10, 2003, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the abolition of the County Court at Law of Navarro
County.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 25.1771 and 25.1772, Government Code,
are repealed.
SECTION 2. Section 2, Chapter 772, Acts of the 77th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, is repealed.
SECTION 3. (a) If created before the effective date of
this Act, the County Court at Law of Navarro County is abolished on
the effective date of this Act and the judge of that court shall
transfer each case that is pending in the court on that date to a
district court or county court in the county with jurisdiction over
the case.
(b) When a case is transferred as provided by Subsection (a)
of this section, all processes, writs, bonds, recognizances, or
other obligations issued from the transferring court are returnable
to the court to which the case is transferred as if originally
issued by that court. The obligees on all bonds and recognizances
taken in and for a court from which a case is transferred, and all
witnesses summoned to appear in a court from which a case is
transferred, are required to appear before the court to which a case
is transferred as if originally required to appear before that
court.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.
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